Spam is much less of an issue now for me. Unlike email, I can't filter my snail mail box. I am often required to recieve things through snail mail, so there isn't much of a choice. I am completely fed up with:
not being able to find my important letters because they are stuffed between pages of coupons and advertisements.
Wasting my time sorting through it all.
Spending even more money on trashbags to contain it all.
Worrying about getting package bombs, toxic chemicals, etc.
Getting very offensive messages from advertisers.
About the last one, I got a snail message that was addressed to my deceased grandfather. I politely sent a message back to them and wrote on it *hisname* died. Rather than stop sending me mail, they now send me mail that says "*hisname* died" as the addressee. It is in the least, very disheartening to be reminded of my grandfathers death every time I read the mail.
One day I'm going to run a dang gas line right into my freakin mailbox and set it to fire up like a torch at night. I'll put it on a swivel mount so every once in a while I can just tilt it over and dump all the junk mail ashes into the street.
I agree, and feel free to also mod me a Troll. The safe in my house has a pretty good lock. The trick is it would take someone very clever to even find it to begin with. Some people ripped me off, but guess what? They never even made an attempt at cracking my safe in the first place because I outsmarted the bad guys. Hiding the safe is security through obscurity, hiding the safe without putting a lock on it is retarded and apparrently what everyone knee jerks to when they hear obscurity. Get over it, people have been using security through obscurity long before any of us were born. Ever hear of a buried treasure?
I think we have discover a company who even proofread the few webpages they will had publish:P Were we not just cautioned about the signs of fraud? I would say this looks like a red flag, but considering the whois for 3actil is registered to a Hong Kong address I guess the red flag thing is a given.
It appears that this device uses a resistive sensor display, which has a resolution more friendly to fingering, but increases fatigue, reduces ruggedness and allows for the possibility of surface contamination, and can be easily damaged. And yep, they don't have much clarity either as a result. If this 3ACTIL company has developed a display technology that overcomes any of these obstacles without the expense of something like surface wave technology, that would make this product greater than the sum of its parts. I doubt to see this much out of a company who's core part manufacturer doesn't even have a website up yet. Not to put down the company, I'm actually taking up for them. There isn't a touch screen tech available that would respond that well to your thumbs while having a real nice display resolution. Anyone have any information that indicates otherwise?
I think that it would be more accurately stated that SOME companies lose money because of P2P apps. Some even profit from them through advertising and nasty adware programs, not that I agree it is ethical. I would wager that companies in general lose more lose money as a result of corporate software piracy.
Why should spammers be buried 100 feet deep? Because deep down they are very good people.
Sarcastic humor gets old but I'll bite anyway. I work for a Bank, all my friends are bankers, my Dad is the VP of a credit union, my mom is a loan officer and my uncle retired from his bank management job to open his own business. I've had more financial counseling than most people will ever get in their lifetime. I didn't exactly follow their advice, but I learned a thing or two about money. You know what they all tell me now?
"Your set."
10 kids, man dude. Get some jimmies! Its always the tards like you that reproduce. Friggin troll.
Microsoft money and Quicken both suck because it means I have to like do things and keep track of things. Seriously, it looks like too much work.
Here's what I've done instead. I have automatic paycheck deposits, all my bills on automatic payment and I use an ATM card for cash. Property taxes I pay online and my IRS return takes like 5 minutes to do because I don't own or buy jack. I never worry about checks because I don't write any. I should have my house payed off in a few years and I'm under 30 years old. I don't make much, but since I don't have shopping sickness I've always got cash.
Once the house is payed I'm going to get a part time telecommuting job, make a recurring grocery list which will be delivered to me in the mail once a month, and just never leave the house except to maybe go have a beer. There is a bar down the street that gives flight miles for your tab, so if I get drunk enough I can get a free cruise or a vacation or something and meet tropical chicks and party. Who needs financial software? Just don't blow your money on stupid stuff or get married or have kids or anything that takes all your money away. Its worked for me.
I'm holding out for a new version of the Commodore Laptop. THAT was a chick magnet.
Seriously though, as much as I would like to see the old name again I sold my C64 for an Atari XE model. It was a great PC and ironically was built after Jack Tramiel (former head of Commodore) bought Atari.
The only reason the nuclear plant at McMurdo Station was scrapped in the early 70's was because of the cost of doing an inspection after a bit of damage. I still think this is the most sensible way to supply power to such a remote area. As for the facility itself, I don't think it takes too much imagination to make something like this work. Maybe put the base on legs similar to an ATAT in starwars? How does science hope to benefit from such a project anyway? I'm not being cynical, I'm just curious.
I personally feel that the First Christian Church should have NO control over wireless at all. Don't they have souls to save or something? I have prayed for Gods help quite often with regard to my company's network, but that's just different.
Today class, before we get started I want to bring something to your attention. Before any of you even stepped in the door, you were all owned by us. We totally ripped you on four big ones. Sorry about that, but we had to do this to stress the importance of decision making. Don't feel bad though. You all need so much help that we shouldn't have much trouble putting together a great set of lesson material. Lets see...
*searches on google*: hacking computers
5 matches down = "How to become a hacker"
Ok class. To start things off, lets ask ourselves the question "What is a Hacker?"...
Unfortunately the guy who crammed WOAF (Windows on a Floppy) took his information offline due to some sort of conflict with his employer. There was an article on shrinking windows on/. a year or two ago that mentioned this project. There are programs you can download to remove a lot of components from windows like litepc. I always knew someone would make a living out of decrufting windows! I have an old notebook I installed windows 2000 on so I can use Microsoft Mappoint on the road. Mappoint is a pretty big program. North American maps are like a 1.2GB full install so I needed to trim space, and litepc saved me a lot of time. Unfortunately most of my problem is usually introducing my own cruft on systems, which is why I like debian's cruft utility, debfoster and deborphan. If anyone knows any similar tools for FreeBSD I'd appreciate suggestions. I'm still trying to figure it all out, but all other apps I used on Linux were already supported in FreeBSD.
Several of us had a discussion about a similar topic at work the other day. Helpdesks set up IVR's and such to reduce their call volume. They still get calls and are still undermanned. The difference is they need fewer idiots doing basic tasks. My group was working on a self healing workstation project, which would potentially reduce the workload on the onsite technicians. The difference is they need fewer idiots doing basic tasks.
Everytime someone tries to implement something that is going to automate or improve things you get resistance from a lot of people at different levels who are all paranoid about losing their jobs. Usually these are the same people who are paranoid about losing their jobs in the first place. The same people who do their best to accentuate their strengths and do whatever they can to cut the experts out of the picture completely.
Our company is moving forward with their ideas, but management has decided to cut people like me out of the picture. Not because they don't like my ideas or even that they understand them. They are trying to take their thing and run with it. Everyone has the "look at me syndrome".
The truth is, most people don't look at the big picture or care about saving money or doing what is best technically. Most people just care about taking care of their families. As much as I hate this conflict, I really don't see how you can blame either side for the way they think. Whichever side you may be on, its the guys with the expensive three story houses and sportscars that win in the end. Most companies don't reward talent. They reward management. This is why you have budget incentives and things like that. Management can give you no support whatsoever, sit on their lazy butt and make a bonus. In the meantime you fight to get the job done, often spending your own time or using your own resources to do the job. Is it fair? Hell no. Will it change. Hell F no. Not while the boomers are still in power.
Write up a purchase order for me please. We need a logitech cordless gamepad. Make it a priority one. It is an issue with the production webserver. Got to go, we're having a meeting about it in the gameroo... i mean boardroom.
Microsoft broke the law. I feel that the government did not appropriately dispense justice. I feel betrayed as a consumer and a citizen of the United States of America.
They used their Monopoly to illegally leverage their inferior products and flood the marketplace. I now have a hard time finding a job in the computer field where I do not have to deal with these products. The hope and enthusiasm I had as a child for a career in the computer industry has been ruined.
Thank you OSS community for all of your hard and often thankless work. One day your efforts will help to make the world a better place and rid the world of this painful nonsense once and for all. I don't just want to avoid Microsoft, I want to see them ousted before I die. Give 'em hell OSS!
First of all we have numerous branch office on very low bandwidth network connections so network speed is an issue. We also have a bunch of jerk managers who want to save a buck now to look good and get their bonus regardless of the long term effects which means we we get limited network attatched storage capacity with no failover or redundancy. We have a hard enough time fitting someones personal folders on network storage, much less ALL of their spreadsheets and word documents, etc. As technicians, we realize the potential benefits of a setup like this, but when it comes down to cash the cheapest way always seems to win and the people who put us in the position to have problems like this in the first place are the first (and often the only) to be rewarded.
Heres my real life situation, which will maybe help you understand my point. Like most companies, mine can't afford an infrastructure capable of supporting a network based method of image deployment. We use a bootable CD method of reimaging PCs. Even if this was not an obstacle in our restoration method, a restriction like that would never fly in my company anyway because it would cause too much complaining to management (the guys who make the decisions on such changes). I have worked for 3 large corporations so far and the story was nearly identical with all of them.
Your only way to protect data is to encrypt it
I realize other operating systems are vulnerable without encryption, but you also don't have many other operating systems in large companies being used as workstations. From my experience, when alternatives ARE used they are usually configured more securely. The unix boxes in our company do use encryption. Do our windows XP users use encrypted folders? Hell, we have windows administrators who don't even know any better.
Thats it. Yeah, I think a small camera would be much more reliable and inexpensive. On second thought I don't think passwords are much of an issue anyway (at least on windows) because they are already worthless. Legacy Windows versions you can escape past the logon. On either 2000 or XP you can boot from a 2000 CD and use recovery console to access the filesystem without being prompted for a password. Its not like anyone needs any help in fitting through the gaping windows security holes.
Would a screenshot then be enough to compromise your system? I recall reading a story on/. about monitors being viewed remotely somehow from like vans parked outside. Put the two together and I would be scared for my network. Another question would be why we haven't heard much in the last 2 years since Microsoft has been working on this same technology?
When I start to get approached by some thugs I'll call out "Hey, you got a dollar?" They usually get an annoyed look on their face and keep walking. It really works well with bums too. I had one even come up and hug me one time because he felt bad for me, lol
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not being able to find my important letters because they are stuffed between pages of coupons and advertisements.
Wasting my time sorting through it all.
Spending even more money on trashbags to contain it all.
Worrying about getting package bombs, toxic chemicals, etc.
Getting very offensive messages from advertisers.
About the last one, I got a snail message that was addressed to my deceased grandfather. I politely sent a message back to them and wrote on it *hisname* died. Rather than stop sending me mail, they now send me mail that says "*hisname* died" as the addressee. It is in the least, very disheartening to be reminded of my grandfathers death every time I read the mail.
One day I'm going to run a dang gas line right into my freakin mailbox and set it to fire up like a torch at night. I'll put it on a swivel mount so every once in a while I can just tilt it over and dump all the junk mail ashes into the street.
I agree, and feel free to also mod me a Troll. The safe in my house has a pretty good lock. The trick is it would take someone very clever to even find it to begin with. Some people ripped me off, but guess what? They never even made an attempt at cracking my safe in the first place because I outsmarted the bad guys. Hiding the safe is security through obscurity, hiding the safe without putting a lock on it is retarded and apparrently what everyone knee jerks to when they hear obscurity. Get over it, people have been using security through obscurity long before any of us were born. Ever hear of a buried treasure?
From the testimonials page:
:P Were we not just cautioned about the signs of fraud? I would say this looks like a red flag, but considering the whois for 3actil is registered to a Hong Kong address I guess the red flag thing is a given.
"we have discover the solution . Jackito..."
I think we have discover a company who even proofread the few webpages they will had publish
It appears that this device uses a resistive sensor display, which has a resolution more friendly to fingering, but increases fatigue, reduces ruggedness and allows for the possibility of surface contamination, and can be easily damaged. And yep, they don't have much clarity either as a result. If this 3ACTIL company has developed a display technology that overcomes any of these obstacles without the expense of something like surface wave technology, that would make this product greater than the sum of its parts. I doubt to see this much out of a company who's core part manufacturer doesn't even have a website up yet. Not to put down the company, I'm actually taking up for them. There isn't a touch screen tech available that would respond that well to your thumbs while having a real nice display resolution. Anyone have any information that indicates otherwise?
Microsoft needs good weapons technologists to assist in their testing.
I think that it would be more accurately stated that SOME companies lose money because of P2P apps. Some even profit from them through advertising and nasty adware programs, not that I agree it is ethical. I would wager that companies in general lose more lose money as a result of corporate software piracy.
Why should spammers be buried 100 feet deep? Because deep down they are very good people.
"Your set."
10 kids, man dude. Get some jimmies! Its always the tards like you that reproduce. Friggin troll.
Microsoft money and Quicken both suck because it means I have to like do things and keep track of things. Seriously, it looks like too much work.
Here's what I've done instead. I have automatic paycheck deposits, all my bills on automatic payment and I use an ATM card for cash. Property taxes I pay online and my IRS return takes like 5 minutes to do because I don't own or buy jack. I never worry about checks because I don't write any. I should have my house payed off in a few years and I'm under 30 years old. I don't make much, but since I don't have shopping sickness I've always got cash.
Once the house is payed I'm going to get a part time telecommuting job, make a recurring grocery list which will be delivered to me in the mail once a month, and just never leave the house except to maybe go have a beer. There is a bar down the street that gives flight miles for your tab, so if I get drunk enough I can get a free cruise or a vacation or something and meet tropical chicks and party. Who needs financial software? Just don't blow your money on stupid stuff or get married or have kids or anything that takes all your money away. Its worked for me.
The real question is, how many flight miles did he get for buying Atari with his Visa card?
I'm holding out for a new version of the Commodore Laptop. THAT was a chick magnet.
Seriously though, as much as I would like to see the old name again I sold my C64 for an Atari XE model. It was a great PC and ironically was built after Jack Tramiel (former head of Commodore) bought Atari.
The only reason the nuclear plant at McMurdo Station was scrapped in the early 70's was because of the cost of doing an inspection after a bit of damage. I still think this is the most sensible way to supply power to such a remote area. As for the facility itself, I don't think it takes too much imagination to make something like this work. Maybe put the base on legs similar to an ATAT in starwars? How does science hope to benefit from such a project anyway? I'm not being cynical, I'm just curious.
I personally feel that the First Christian Church should have NO control over wireless at all. Don't they have souls to save or something? I have prayed for Gods help quite often with regard to my company's network, but that's just different.
*searches on google*: hacking computers
5 matches down = "How to become a hacker"
Ok class. To start things off, lets ask ourselves the question "What is a Hacker?"...
I know of at least 43 things.
Unfortunately the guy who crammed WOAF (Windows on a Floppy) took his information offline due to some sort of conflict with his employer. There was an article on shrinking windows on /. a year or two ago that mentioned this project. There are programs you can download to remove a lot of components from windows like litepc. I always knew someone would make a living out of decrufting windows! I have an old notebook I installed windows 2000 on so I can use Microsoft Mappoint on the road. Mappoint is a pretty big program. North American maps are like a 1.2GB full install so I needed to trim space, and litepc saved me a lot of time. Unfortunately most of my problem is usually introducing my own cruft on systems, which is why I like debian's cruft utility, debfoster and deborphan. If anyone knows any similar tools for FreeBSD I'd appreciate suggestions. I'm still trying to figure it all out, but all other apps I used on Linux were already supported in FreeBSD.
Everytime someone tries to implement something that is going to automate or improve things you get resistance from a lot of people at different levels who are all paranoid about losing their jobs. Usually these are the same people who are paranoid about losing their jobs in the first place. The same people who do their best to accentuate their strengths and do whatever they can to cut the experts out of the picture completely.
Our company is moving forward with their ideas, but management has decided to cut people like me out of the picture. Not because they don't like my ideas or even that they understand them. They are trying to take their thing and run with it. Everyone has the "look at me syndrome".
The truth is, most people don't look at the big picture or care about saving money or doing what is best technically. Most people just care about taking care of their families. As much as I hate this conflict, I really don't see how you can blame either side for the way they think. Whichever side you may be on, its the guys with the expensive three story houses and sportscars that win in the end. Most companies don't reward talent. They reward management. This is why you have budget incentives and things like that. Management can give you no support whatsoever, sit on their lazy butt and make a bonus. In the meantime you fight to get the job done, often spending your own time or using your own resources to do the job. Is it fair? Hell no. Will it change. Hell F no. Not while the boomers are still in power.
Now that would be a RIOT.
Write up a purchase order for me please. We need a logitech cordless gamepad. Make it a priority one. It is an issue with the production webserver. Got to go, we're having a meeting about it in the gameroo... i mean boardroom.
Microsoft broke the law. I feel that the government did not appropriately dispense justice. I feel betrayed as a consumer and a citizen of the United States of America.
They used their Monopoly to illegally leverage their inferior products and flood the marketplace. I now have a hard time finding a job in the computer field where I do not have to deal with these products. The hope and enthusiasm I had as a child for a career in the computer industry has been ruined.
Thank you OSS community for all of your hard and often thankless work. One day your efforts will help to make the world a better place and rid the world of this painful nonsense once and for all. I don't just want to avoid Microsoft, I want to see them ousted before I die. Give 'em hell OSS!
First of all we have numerous branch office on very low bandwidth network connections so network speed is an issue. We also have a bunch of jerk managers who want to save a buck now to look good and get their bonus regardless of the long term effects which means we we get limited network attatched storage capacity with no failover or redundancy. We have a hard enough time fitting someones personal folders on network storage, much less ALL of their spreadsheets and word documents, etc. As technicians, we realize the potential benefits of a setup like this, but when it comes down to cash the cheapest way always seems to win and the people who put us in the position to have problems like this in the first place are the first (and often the only) to be rewarded.
it should be disabled in setup anyway
Heres my real life situation, which will maybe help you understand my point. Like most companies, mine can't afford an infrastructure capable of supporting a network based method of image deployment. We use a bootable CD method of reimaging PCs. Even if this was not an obstacle in our restoration method, a restriction like that would never fly in my company anyway because it would cause too much complaining to management (the guys who make the decisions on such changes). I have worked for 3 large corporations so far and the story was nearly identical with all of them.
Your only way to protect data is to encrypt it
I realize other operating systems are vulnerable without encryption, but you also don't have many other operating systems in large companies being used as workstations. From my experience, when alternatives ARE used they are usually configured more securely. The unix boxes in our company do use encryption. Do our windows XP users use encrypted folders? Hell, we have windows administrators who don't even know any better.
Thats it. Yeah, I think a small camera would be much more reliable and inexpensive. On second thought I don't think passwords are much of an issue anyway (at least on windows) because they are already worthless. Legacy Windows versions you can escape past the logon. On either 2000 or XP you can boot from a 2000 CD and use recovery console to access the filesystem without being prompted for a password. Its not like anyone needs any help in fitting through the gaping windows security holes.
Would a screenshot then be enough to compromise your system? I recall reading a story on /. about monitors being viewed remotely somehow from like vans parked outside. Put the two together and I would be scared for my network. Another question would be why we haven't heard much in the last 2 years since Microsoft has been working on this same technology?
When I start to get approached by some thugs I'll call out "Hey, you got a dollar?" They usually get an annoyed look on their face and keep walking. It really works well with bums too. I had one even come up and hug me one time because he felt bad for me, lol
Thanks for the info. I'll submit my laptop since it isn't listed.